Cannot remove PIM Event

[Dervis]

Hello

I have followed numerous examples of the PIM API for adding and removing events. However, while I can add new events without any problems, I cannot remove the added events.

The error message I get on my Nokia 6131 phone is "the item does not belong to the list". I have tried to google this message, but have not found any solution for it.

This is were the error occurs :

public void removePIMEvent(final int index) {
		
		new Thread(new Runnable() {
			 public void run() {
				 Event ev = null;
				 synchronized (PIMManager.this) {
						 try {
							 ev = (Event)itemList.elementAt(index);
							 events.removeEvent(ev);
							 itemList.removeAllElements();
							 midlet.getFrontEnd().getReaderForm().getEventsList().deleteAll();
							 midlet.getFrontEnd().getReaderForm().getEventsList().updateList();
						 }
						 catch (PIMException e) {
							 midlet.error("Cannot remove event.\n"+e.getMessage());
						 }
				 }
			 }
		 }).start();

Thanks for any advice.

[bmichel]

I am not familiar with the PIM API but my guess would be that the error is occuring at:

ev = (Event)itemList.elementAt(index);

I believe this problem might occur because of one of these two reasons:
- the variable index is not correct (probably because it's not thread safe). Where do you increment or decrement the value of index and do you take care of thread concurrency?
Example:

// index initially 10
ev = (Event)itemList.elementAt(index); // no element in position 10, error is thrown

- PIMManager.this is not ensuring thread safety. The following can happen. Assume you have two threads A & B running:

// index = 0 initially
A: ev = (Event)itemList.elementAt(index); // gets element X
A: events.removeEvent(ev);
A: itemList.removeAllElements();  // all items removed
B: ev = (Event)itemList.elementAt(index); // no items in itemList, error is thrown

Hope this helps

[Dervis]

Hello!

After hours and hours of searching, I have finally found the error.

The error is thrown because I initialized the PIMList several times, without closing and cleaning the resources correctly. In my class called "PIMManager", I now load the EventList only ones.